Champion of Religious Liberty and Rhode Island Founder

Champion of Religious Liberty and Rhode Island Founder

Roger Williams

Roger Williams was an English-born theologian who championed religious freedom and the separation of church and state in Puritan New England. Banished from Massachusetts for his beliefs, he founded Providence, Rhode Island, establishing a sanctuary of tolerance and fair native relations.

Timeline

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Year Roger Williams
1603
Birth of Roger Williams (Period: Around 1603, Location: London, England)
1629
Marriage (Roger Williams, Mary Bernard (Mary Barnard), Age: 26 years old, Period: 1629, Location: England)
1635
Banishment from the Massachusetts Bay Colony (Age: 32 years old, Period: 1635, Location: Massachusetts Bay Colony (Present-day Massachusetts, United States))
1636
Establishment of the Providence Plantations (Age: 33 years old, Period: 1636, Location: Present-day Providence, Rhode Island, United States)
1638
Founding of the First Baptist Church in America (Age: 35 years old, Period: Around 1638, Location: Providence)
1675
King Philip’s War (Age: 72 years old, Period: 1675–1678, Location: New England Region)
1683
Death of Roger Williams (Age: 80 years old, Period: Around January–March 1683)

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Governor John Winthrop William Bradford
Leader Roger Williams Anne Hutchinson Cotton Mather
The Addams Family John Adams John Quincy Adams
Indigenous People Ousamequin Metacomet

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